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Elevating Your Role As An Executive Assistant

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Understanding the Executive's Vision To truly become a business partner, immerse yourself in understanding your executive's vision and goals as well as the company’s. This means not just comprehending their immediate tasks but grasping the broader objectives guiding their decisions.

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How to Find a Mentor Who Will Best Support Your Growth

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Determine what you’re looking for in a mentor Considering which goals you’re looking to achieve can help you clearly identify your priorities and ultimately know what to look for in a mentor. Create a list of your specific goals to help you qualify your potential candidates. During your first discussions, decide when and how to meet.

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Time to Set Goals? How to Have a Successful Year

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Every successful executive assistant we know is a goal setter. There’s something about good goal setting that helps to ensure you give more thought to where you’re going and what you need to do to get there. They’re stated like a goal, but don’t have a plan to back them up. A good goal has a plan.

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How to Create a Personal Financial Plan

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You’ve heard of entrepreneurs and executives creating a business plan to help them cement and guide their long-term strategy, but did you know that creating a personal financial plan is an excellent way to keep your long-term goals on track? From there, you have an easy reference point for the rest of your financial plan.

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Humor in the Workplace: How to Be Funny at Work Without Crossing the Line

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According to Paul Osincup , corporate trainer, humor strategist and author of the forthcoming book, The Humor Habit , we are all suffering from a condition he refers to as “chronic seriousness.” Yet, humor in the workplace is not all that common these days. You often say things like: “It was just a joke, where’s your sense of humor?”

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Mastering The Art Of Distributed Leadership: Lessons From Atlassian’s “Team Anywhere” Program

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Distributed” refers to work that doesn’t happen shoulder-to-shoulder. Atlassian focuses on having clarity into goals and objectives, then figures out how to coordinate and align efforts virtually to achieve them. Teams spread across locations and time zones might be working from home, or might meet in the office.

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How to Find a Mentor Who Will Best Support Your Growth

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Determine what you’re looking for in a mentor Considering which goals you’re looking to achieve can help you clearly identify your priorities and ultimately know what to look for in a mentor. Create a list of your specific goals to help you qualify your potential candidates. During your first discussions, decide when and how to meet.

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